The making of a teenage service class : poverty and mobility in an American city /

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"Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ray, Ranita, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Poor youth > United States > Case studies.
Urban youth > United States > Case studies.
Poverty > United States.
African American students > Education > Case studies.
Hispanic American students > Education > Case studies.
Jeunes pauvres > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Jeunes en milieu urbain > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
African American students
Hispanic American students
Poor youth
Poverty
Urban youth
United States
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The mobility puzzle and irreconcilable choices
  • Port city rising from the ashes
  • Sibling ties
  • Risky love
  • Saved by college
  • The making of a teenage service class
  • Internalizing uncertainty: bad genes, hunger, and homelessness
  • Uncertain success
  • Dismantling the construction of "At risk" discourse.

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